Table of Contents

Preface: Counter-Racial Formation Theory, Barnor Hesse
Introduction: Racial Optimism and the Drag of Thymotics, P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon P. Woods
Chapter One: No Reprieve: The “Racial Formation” of the United States as a Settler-Colonial Empire (Black Power, White-Sociology, and Omi & Winant, Revisited), Greg Thomas
Chapter Two: Being in the Field: A Reflection on Ethnographic Practice, P. Khalil Saucier
Chapter Three: Anti-Blackness as Mundane: Black Girls and Punishment Beyond School Discipline, Connie Wun
Chapter Four: Strangers to the Economy: Black Work and the Wages of Non-Blackness, Tamara K. Nopper
Chapter Five: At the Intersections of Assemblages: Fanon, Capécia, and the Unmaking of the Genre Subject, Patrice Douglass
Chapter Six: “Something of the fever and the fret”: Antiblackness in the Critical Prison Studies fold, Tryon P. Woods

About the Author

P. Khalil Saucier is chair and associate professor of Africana Studies at Bucknell University.

Tryon P. Woods is assistant professor of crime and justice studies at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and teaches Africana studies at Rhode Island College and of Black Studies at Providence College.

Reviews

With a passion that supplants the stumblings of aphasia and racial denials, this book offers elegant analyses to decode, and action to confront, structural violence. Calls to "end" predatory worlds demand language that reflects our struggles. With at times brave and painful sincerity, "Conceptual Aphasia in Black" builds structure that allows us to speak.
*Joy James, author of Seeking the Beloved Community*